What's the record for highest number of biographies on a single person?
I recently realized that so far there have been 4 movies about Steve Jobs' life, however ridiculous that might be, it made me wonder if there was another person that has enjoyed the same amount of interest or greater, I think for the sake of brevity we should exclude figures that weren't around the 20th and 21st century. I'm interested in recent public figures.
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I took the very unscientific approach of using Wikipedia and their List of biographical films. I then put all the information into a spreadsheet, removed a lot of annoying merged cells and came up with a list and turned this into a hopefully pretty graph:
Using this, and ignoring non 20th/21st century people, it looks like Adolf Hitler and Albert Schweitzer lead the way with seven films each.
Of course, Wikipedia's list of biographical films can be edited by anyone and is in no way definitive - but I can't find any other list on the Internet tracking it. Interestingly, they had just three films for Steve Jobs (as out of the six films created about him, they considered three biographical and three documentaries.
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There are literally dozens of movies about Wong Fei-hung, who died in 1924 and therefore qualifies for your time range. Granted, most of those movies aren't well-known outside China / Hong Kong.
And you might want to make a very close inspection before declaring that e.g. Iron Monkey (1993) is a "biographical" account of his childhood! So not all of them qualify as biographies. I think you'd be able to find almost a continuum from "sincere attempt to recount events that actually occurred" to "complete fiction that just uses his name", and draw the line where you want within that.
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